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Monday Jun 23, 2014 #
Easy Run 55:00 [3]
Day 1 after ankle injury: taping, iboprofen, friends while running, ice, exercises and ice afterwards. In the scheme of things, some encouraging feelings coming from the ankle.
Saturday Jun 14, 2014 #
11 PM
Orienteering race 1:30:00 [5]
My First Jukola - Kuopio 2014
I too was there, http://vimeo.com/98326112, with a starting bib number 200, running for the best all-italian team CUS Bologna, positioned only 4-5 rows from the best clubs in the world. Those seconds between the speaker crying "10 seconds to start" and the shot signaling the beginning of the relay were really something special. The head-lamps turning on, the crowds silent all of a sudden, the white tape moving away and only your pounding heart to count the time left until go-time. And then the mass starts moving, fiercely and fast, with a jet soaring loudly above our heads. Some fall and are eaten up by the heard of moving runners, some push to pass you and you too are eager to get some rows behind your assigned one. The start-shoot seems long, but just a few seconds after the fields, the impact on the forest terrain is quite brutal...everyone was going too fast for such rough Finnish ground. Lots of fellow runners around me fall, and after a few hundred meters my ankle also does not hold all that is on the ground. Just like two weeks ago in Barricata, it twists unnaturally on the side and pain starts. The pain will not end until 10km later in the first-aid tent after I complete the leg for my team, and the whole race was for me a real struggle coping with too many painful steps. But those few minutes. between the last cries of the speaker and my pain in the ankle were just magical. It's true, the start of Jukola is really something, I would not have wanted to be anywhere else in the world, and I will be back next year, hoping the pain will come later in the race, and from tiredness instead of injury. But, yea, thanks Jukola, that was incredible.
I too was there, http://vimeo.com/98326112, with a starting bib number 200, running for the best all-italian team CUS Bologna, positioned only 4-5 rows from the best clubs in the world. Those seconds between the speaker crying "10 seconds to start" and the shot signaling the beginning of the relay were really something special. The head-lamps turning on, the crowds silent all of a sudden, the white tape moving away and only your pounding heart to count the time left until go-time. And then the mass starts moving, fiercely and fast, with a jet soaring loudly above our heads. Some fall and are eaten up by the heard of moving runners, some push to pass you and you too are eager to get some rows behind your assigned one. The start-shoot seems long, but just a few seconds after the fields, the impact on the forest terrain is quite brutal...everyone was going too fast for such rough Finnish ground. Lots of fellow runners around me fall, and after a few hundred meters my ankle also does not hold all that is on the ground. Just like two weeks ago in Barricata, it twists unnaturally on the side and pain starts. The pain will not end until 10km later in the first-aid tent after I complete the leg for my team, and the whole race was for me a real struggle coping with too many painful steps. But those few minutes. between the last cries of the speaker and my pain in the ankle were just magical. It's true, the start of Jukola is really something, I would not have wanted to be anywhere else in the world, and I will be back next year, hoping the pain will come later in the race, and from tiredness instead of injury. But, yea, thanks Jukola, that was incredible.